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    Phone ‘sim farms’ set to be banned in major UK scam crackdown
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    Phone ‘sim farms’ set to be banned in major UK scam crackdown

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    1. BestButtons on

      > Home Office says recent data showed fraud now accounts for more than 40 per cent of all reported crime in England and Wales

      40%, sounds incredible, or is it because other types aren’t reported that often anymore?

      > It will see the possibility of unlimited fines in England and Wales and £5,000 fines in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

      This is what I don’t understand, devolution or not, why two countries can set the fines so low that they become essentially meaningless when we are talking about borderless crime?

      > “As an industry, UK telecoms operators have blocked more than one billion suspected scam messages since 2023. However, we cannot fully tackle fraud in isolation; collaboration between industry and government is crucial.”

    2. HonorableNOIFOI on

      lol – this seems to be an attempt to control people’s access to mobile phones without government interference dressed up as a crime prevention strategy.

    4. LordSolstice on

      What is this going to do, exactly?

      * Scammers are criminals, and criminals will simply get these in the country through other means.
      * You don’t even need to be in the country to target and scam UK citizens.
      * The global phone network [itself can be hacked](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y) so you don’t even need a SIM farm.

    5. barcap on

      > The UK is set to ban ‘sim farm’ devices in an effort to crack down on mobile phone scams and fraud.

      Simple problems, simple solution.

      Have a digital id and a physical id card. You’d have internet passport for content controls. Then each SIM card taken must be registered with an id card. That way you’d always know who is at the end of the SIM card. Simples?